“Beating the Stigma of Mental Illness” – Patrick Corrigan, PsyD | UW Psychiatry Grand Rounds

Friday June 16 12:00 – 1:15pm
WisPIC Commons Room
6001 Research Park Blvd in Madison, WI
+ Virtual Event – via WebEx

Patrick Corrigan, PsyD | UW Psychiatry Grand Rounds

“Beating the Stigma of Mental Illness”

The stigma of mental illness significantly worsens the course of serious disorders. This presentation will review different types of stigma – public stigma, self-stigma, label avoidance – and specific harmful results. We will then review effective ways to challenge them which, by the way, largely do NOT reside in education, but more in contact with people in recovery.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define the three types of stigma related to substance use disorder (SUD).

2. Describe the three sets of harmful effects wrought by stigma.

3. Put together a program that will diminish the harmful effects of SUD stigma.

Reading List:

• Formal peer-support services that address priorities of people with psychiatric disabilities: A systematic review
• The impact of contact and fame on changing the public stigma of mental illness
• The impact of mental illness stigma on seeking and participating in mental health care

About the Speaker:

Patrick Corrigan is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Tech-nology. Prior to that, Corrigan was Professor of Psychiatry and Executive Director of the University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Corrigan has worked most of his 30-year career in providing and evaluating services for people with psychiatric disabil-ities with special focus on the impact of health equity. Realizing that the benefits of psy-chiatric services are limited by stigma, he has spent the past two decades broadening his research to the prejudice and discrimination of mental illness. His work has been support-ed by NIH and PCORI for most of that time to, among other things, develop and lead the National Consortium on Stigma and Empowerment (www.NCSE1.org). This led to devel-opment of the Honest, Open, Proud program to erase the stigma of mental illness (www. honestopenproudprogram.org). Corrigan also extended his research to mental health AND social determinants (e.g., ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, and age) and corresponding social disadvantage related to poverty, criminal justice involve-ment, and immigration concerns resulting in the Chicago Health Disparities Center (www. chicagoheatlhdispariteis.org) . Corrigan has authored more than 450 journal articles and 20 books. He is also editor of Stigma and Health, an APA journal.

Webex Info:

American Medical Association (AMA) The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 ANCC contact hours.

American Psychological Association (APA) Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsi-bility for the content of the programs.

Continuing Education Units Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

Continuing Education Units. The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP, as a member of the University Professional & Continuing Educa-tion Association (UPCEA), authorizes this program for 0.125 continuing education units (CEUs) or 1.25 hours.